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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many French ships do the English manage to destroy?
(a) 0.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

2. How does escape by river enhance their chance of success?
(a) They do not have to worry about food and water.
(b) They are sailors and thus do better on water.
(c) Because they are traveling faster than a message can go overland.
(d) They cannot be seen from shore because the river is so wide.

3. What is the casualty count for Hornblower's crew?
(a) All but five of her crew survive with no serious wounds.
(b) All but five of her crew die in the battle.
(c) Two thirds of her crew are killed or wounded.
(d) About one third of her crew are killed or wounded.

4. What has he not yet told Bush?
(a) That Bush may face life imprisonment in Paris.
(b) That he faces execution along with Hornblower.
(c) That Bush's wife has died in childbirth.
(d) That gangrene has set into the stump.

5. How is Bush in the morning?
(a) His stump is completely healed over.
(b) He is near death.
(c) Much better.
(d) Feverish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Bush at a critical stage of his recovery?

2. How old is Brown?

3. What is the surname of the host?

4. About what does Hornblower think all night?

5. What happens to his men daily?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the owner of the house where the escapees knock to ask for aid? How does he treat the prisoners initially?

2. What are mostly in Hornblower's thoughts as he waits his future?

3. How did Hornblower end up where he is at the beginning of the novel?

4. What does the French innkeeper do for the English prisoners before they leave? What thoughts does Hornblower mull as they travel in the coach?

5. What happens that stops the escapees' trip down the river?

6. What seems to be one of Hornblowers primary emotional states? What does he think when he reviews his actions which led to his imprisonment?

7. Who does Hornblower think of when he first meets Marie and what might these thoughts foreshadow?

8. What does Hornblower awaken to a few days after his capture? How does he respond? What does he see? What do you think he might have felt when he first saw the fight?

9. In what shape is Bush at the beginning of Chapter 5? What does the doctor tell Caillard? What does Hornblower say?

10. What happens to the coach that stops travel for a while?

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